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Untrue things

I am the heir apparent to the Queen of the World.

Apple trees grow out of your ears if you swallow apple seeds.

I can fly to the moon on a duck.

Dogs can speak English, they just choose not to so we don't make them do more work.

Everyone driving knows what everyone driving is thinking, rendering things like indicators useless.

Hollywood should make more lowest common denominator movies aimed at making fun of everyone.

Librarians are evil, they want to take all your money and destroy your will to read. And your child's interest in reading. Librarians want to eradicate fun from the world.

Dreams come true if you dream them more than once.

Sleeping with your head touching someone else's makes you dream the same thing.

It's easy and fun to make clothing from fig leaves.

Two smaller pieces of cake are less than one big piece of cake.

Humans don't need sunlight.

Clowns

I was thinking about what I used to be scared of because of Giffy's Little Fears entry. Then I was talking to my workmate about Steven King and I mentioned that I would never read It because I used to have a pathological fear of clowns.

Now that I'm mostly over my clown fear (or coulrophobia) I find it fun to look at people's web galleries of scary clowns. Man, there's a lot of people out there just like me who hate clowns.

I personally endorse the 'am I scary or not' page and the awesome merchandise. I must have one of those "can't sleep clowns will eat me" hoodies.

I was also scared of Santa, but let's face it, you don't really want to encourage kids to sit on strange men's laps, whisper things in their ears and accept candy off them, right?

There's something creepy about tattered old animal costumes too.

Authorial goodness

Neil Gaiman's blog is quite exciting right now, since he's writing a novel called Anansi Boys. Go and read it if you're a writer or like to read about writers....

Music: Witch Hunter Robin OST

Wiggly Jenni-Chan! Wiggly wiggly wiggly

work is busy as I do lots of datashow presentations to people about how to use our website.

Reading Dude, where's my country? not really enjoying it as much as Stupid White Men but liking it all the same. Let's see he made me laugh just now with a comment about making the bed. Like, are we hiding the sheets from something we don't want them to see during the day? heh.

Watched some of Sleeping Beauty and some of Anita and Me. Wasn't in the mood for either of them, so didn't see the end of either. Anita and Me was full of really annoying extreme English accents. Not that funny, not very endearing although it did portray the hero-worship/best friend relationship quite well.

Svend came over to collect his masses of Tupperware and we had a lovely chat. I showed him a little bit of Fruits Basket that I was watching to cheer myself up after the two failed movie attempts.

It has been hard to wake up this week. It is so very dark in the morning and I just want to cling to my dreams. I had convention dreams last night, with lots of references to Auckland Armageddon, esp a certain winner of the cosplay awards. I don't think very much actually happened in the dream, just wandering around various maze-like levels and seeing cool people. It was much more brightly coloured than the actual con too.

Yesterday morning I had waiting at the airport dreams. I was friends with Elizabeth from the Alice books I read a while ago. That was neat. I love when book characters appear in my dreams.

weird news

Using Astro Boy as currency?

I want one.

We watched a couple more episodes of Witch Hunter Robin last night, we're now up to ep 19. It's getting very interesting, and I want to see how it ends, but I'm also enjoying dragging it out longer and enjoying it slowly.

Work was very busy. My cold won't go away.

By the way

I have uploaded a picture onto my Osaka entry on Cosplaylab. It has Giffy on it too, since she doesn't have a cosplaylab account, and she is in the majority of my other costume pics.

It's kind of a tiny picture and that's because it's good quality. I'm not sure how that works, but there you go.

since you all like quizzes so much

I guess it won't have as much appeal as the Princess Bride one given that everyone *loves* Princess Bride, but for your quizzing pleasure, here is the Working South of the Border quiz.

This test was written by me and Giffy about our fantastic roleplaying game run by Svend.

True things, 200th entry vol. 2

My nose is itchy

I don't like it when my feet are cold

The sun is warm

Snow is cold

Fruit is harder to eat than chocolate. i.e. requires more preparation

Dreams are free

Clothes dry fastest on the line if the line is in the sun and wind

Scrapbooking is addictive

Flannel quilts are warm and soft

Tupperware has a lifetime guarantee

Which princess bride character are you? Is the most popular quiz to date on my blog.

Last entry for the day, I promise

I just remembered that while gushing like a fangirl at Brian Michael Bendis I mentioned that I had wanted to dress as Retro Girl to meet him, but I had run out of time. He said "Wow! That would have been sooo cool!" and meant it!

I realize it sounds like he was being sarcastic, but he wasn't. He would have thought I was cool. Dammit.

Heehee

Just found a Which Princess Bride character are you? quiz...it's a bit easy to guess which character you'll get with which answer, but the questions are nicely written and you get a nice picture at the end.

I did it twice, the first time with my most likely answers and I got Buttercup. The second time I did it so I'd get Westly. Lovely.

Plinkety plinkety plink

No rabbits today unfortunately. I did receive a free book in the mail when I got home yesterday though. That was pretty cool. If you want a free book too, you should go to the bookcrossing website and register. Then you get "Wild Animus" when you fill in some details.

I am introducing bookcrossing to the libraries of Wellington. You join up, register your books and then release them into the wild for someone else to find. Then they tell the website they've done it and you get to watch your book travel around. It's awesome fun to leave a book out in the wild and then get an email saying someone's collected it. Also, it's a great way od clearing shelf space!

I finished Why Girls are Weird last night. I really liked it, except that the message seemed to be 'don't have an online journal'. Which is weird, given that the author has an online journal. True, she did take it down for a while, but then she started it back up again. Then again, I doubt talula will ever get so popular as to become a problem like in the book. I have in fact had no scary stalker men, so it's all good. No, that was not an invitation by the way.

I am now reading Dude, Where's My Country so there may well be more Michael Moore rants in the future.
Quick revelation from the first chapter: The Bush family and the Bin Ladens are old family friends and business partners.

Watched Amon Saga the other day. It's exactly like a crappy D&D movie but animated by the Japanese. All the monsters were two animals in one eg. owl-cat, cat-wolf. Scary stuff. Very poorly written too, not interesting at all and the lovely princess was called Leechia. Her name was the feminine version of Leech. How appealing.

100 things I love

Goes like this:

16 ACTIVITIES:
1. Dancing
2. reading
3. roleplaying
4. chatting with friends
5. taking photos
6. cosplaying
7. laughing
8. singing
9. blogging
10. writing in real life
11. scrapbooking
12. making dolls
13. making quilts
14. cuddling
15. sleeping
16. Snuggling.

16 THINGS:
1. Roses
2. Scrapbooks
3. photos
4. cakes
5. Creme caramel / creme brulee
6. trees
7. dreams
8. books
9. paintings
10. cats
11. movies
12. dvds
13. warm clothes
14. stripey socks
15. aloe vera tissues
16. quilts. Esp flannel quilts.

10 PEOPLE:
1. Mum
2. Dad
3. Sister
4. Brother
5. Lee
6 and 7 are the new neices
8. Giffy
9. Evie
10. Zephfi
(thinks, why don't I get 16 people?)

10 FOODS
1. Errr...maybe I should change some of my "things"? Never mind. Chocolate.
2. Chocolate oranges
3. meat pizza
4. seafood chowder
5. butter chicken
6. crostini
7. garlic bread
8. roast chicken
9. fresh fish
10. lasagne

10 PLACES
1. Home
2. Mum and Dad's house
3. Te Papa
4. Paramount theatre
5. Embassy theatre
6. botanic gardens, esp Frog Fountain, Duck pond and rose garden.
7. Oriental Bay, esp with ice-cream
8. Zico's cucina on Courtenay Place
9. Libraries
10. Unity books

10 GAMES
1. Beanie
2. Settlers of Catan
3. Trivial Pursuit (Up-to-date NZ version only)
4. Princes of Florence
5. Cranium
6. Dino Hunt (Sigh...."Minmi! Miiiiiiiinmiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!")
7. Changeling: the dreaming (RPG)
8. Working South of the Border (RPG)
9. Splat (with play-do bugs, it was cool)
10. Oxford. It's a dictionary board game. I'm awesome at it.

5 BOOKS
1. Lola Rose by J Wilson
2. I capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
3. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
4. Last Unicorn by Peter S Beale
5. Midsummer's Nightmare by Garry Killworth

5 MOVIES
1. Last Unicorn
2. Moulin Rouge
3. Princess Bride
4. Donnie Darko
5. Amelie

5 DRINKS/BEVERAGES
1. Root beer
2. Creaming soda
3. Hot chocolate
4. Ginger ale
5. Turkish apple tea

5 ANIMALS
1. Cats
2. Tigers
3. Sting rays
4. wolves
5. dragons

3 COLORS
Red, black and pink

5 MUSIC ARTISTS/TYPES OF MUSIC
1. Tori Amos
2. Leonard Cohen
3. Lisa Loeb
4. Counting Crows
5. Live

thanks to scrap your story

Huh.

My 200th entry is no longer my 200th entry. I deleted a bunch of photo-only entries and now I'm back down to 195. How annoying.

We had Margie over for dinner last night. She was delcious. Watched three quarters of the second DVD of Angelic Layer which I bought on Monday. Fruits Basket in english is almost good. It's just Kyo's voice they've got wrong, which I wouldn't mind except he's y'know, my favourite. Also, instead of Hana being the freaky 'vibes' chick, who can pick up on other people's vibes and scare people by emanating bad vibes she's 'electric' girl. Which is weirder. I think the Americans would still have understood about vibes, so I don't know why they changed that.
I mean really, saying there's something wrong with someone's electricity makes a lot less sense to me.

I am driving the manual car like a mean driving machine. Clutch? Hah! I rule the clutch!

Why Girls are Weird has been making me weepy, since it's about sad stuff and she gets all the emotions *just right*. Like for example about an ex. "I haven't talked to him in years, but he's still hurting me." (poorly paraphrased there, never mind). It's emotional truth. Egads, did I just type emotional truth?

Dr Phil: You typed 'emotional truth' huh?
Jenni: yes
Dr Phil: What's your pay-off for that? How's that working out for you?
Jenni: uhhhh....it's not! (Bursts into healing tears.)

I got some photos back, but only three of them are costume ones from Sunday. Mostly it's babies and going out for dinner on Saturday night. Which is fine, but I now must finish the film in my camera in order to get all my cosplay photos back.

The drone in your voice and the fly on the wall

say it's over it's over it's over it is. What do I wish from you? What do I wish? It's over it's over it is.
--Lisa Loeb.

That song is now first on my MP3 player. It used to be Supergroove "Sitting inside my head", but I changed lots of the songs around before I went to Auckland.

I'm thinking of making a tshirt that says "please don't yell at me" but I'm not sure it'd make any difference to the people who are going to yell at me. They'll do it anyway, cute tshirt or no. Negative reaction also possible with people being contrary and taking the tshirt as a kind of challenge.

Driving the manual is going very well. I was worried I would have lost the knack over the weekend, but I think the break was good for me.

I forgot that the way I like my pictures developed (DigitalMax) it takes them a full day to come back to me. So, I won't get my pics back til tomorrow.

I am reading Why Girls are Weird which is written by a blogger and is about a girl who blogs. I am enjoying it immensely. Find Pamela Ribon here. Awesome book, lovely website.

Didn't achieve much last night after work, except for I went through my back entries and fixed it up....so, there shouldn't be any more broken links to pictures that aren't there. I am certain I have missed some, but it was very boring and I got tired of doing it. If you find a broken link, please leave a comment on the entry and I'll go fix it up. Thanks!

If you want to look at pictures of my costumes, you'll have to go to cosplaylab or come visit me and I'll show you hard copy. Scrapbooks even.

My workmate who was new at the start of the year bought me a present from Melbourne. Sweet unexpected gifts are great. It's a stripey matching hat and scarf, which is ideal and lovely and suits me to bits. Checklist: warm things, cute things, stripey things, colourful things. Jenni likes them all!
Buzz, buzz, happy happy.

I'm going to go and sing the "Happy, happy, joy, joy" sing now.

Cosplaying

Yesterday was Auckland Armageddon day for me. I dressed in my Azumanga Daioh school uniform and a borrowed black wig, plus my white fleece for warmth. I was armed with a juice box, a camera and money.

I arrived bright and early at 9.30am so I could do all the things I wanted to. Here's what I did:
walked around the entire convention and saw *everything*

Bought Fruits basket on DVD. The entire series, for $50 less than normal cost! I am sooooo happy about this.

Did the 'ty' treasure hunt and got a free beanie baby doggie.

Met up with Zephfi, Giffy and others

Did some human bingo with other anime fans

Got lots of comments on my daddy cat from people who coveted him and offered to pay me for him.

Performed "Never gonna give you up" by Rick Astley at the singstar booth.

Was given singstar roadie tshirt by Giffy. Yay Giffy!

Watched the Otaking* contest. Oh the questions were sooooo hard, but every now and then I could answer one! I resolve to watch heaps of anime and enter the next one.

Bought a copy of volume 4 of Alias by Brian Michael Bendis and then kept managing to miss him at his booth! Until 10 minutes before I was due to be picked up..then I saw him and was a gushing fangirl. Got a photo of him and with him and he signed my book._Squee!_**

Participated in the Cosplay contest.

Was blown away by incredible talent of fellow cosplayers.

Met cosplayers and got lots of photos.

Was extremely happy that Neimhaille won, because her Satine sparkling diamonds in just gorgeous. _swoon_

Had to miss out on the post-contest cosplay madness, as I was picked up. _sigh_

So, I had a fantastic time at Armageddon and I met some very awesome people. I will definitely go next year. I was very impressed with the professional way the judging was handled. Awesome stuff. Very pleased, and my faith in cosplaying is now restored.

Hooray!

*Anime trivia.
** It's much less embarrassing to be a gushing fangirl while dressed as a Japanese schoolgirl. I suspect I have more credibility in my regular clothes. Mostly.

Ridiculous...*special bonus 200th entry!*

I really like planes, but they don't seem real at all. It always seems like bad special effects to look out the window and see this big wing and tiny toy towns spread out below.

Airplanes are ridiculous. I mean, this huge lump of metal that has people inside it and can fly? I keep thinking I shouldn't believe in them.

Maybe it's all a Truman Show conspiracy and all planes are the same plane and when you get in it, they just move it down a runway and you get out on a different set, with different actors. I'm not sure how they change the pictures you see out the window. It's either a scene being played on a film that goes past you, wound from one roll onto another at the other end, or it's complicated holograms.

The other thing I don't get is how you always feel like you're heading the same way. Like you're always going North. It must be because you always face the front of the plane, so you're always pointed that way. The windows are so small that it's hard to tell the way the plane is facing, all you know is you're pointing at the front of the plane.

My theory is good but for one thing, how do they make you feel that sensation of being pressed backwards into your seat and lifting into the air? Maybe it's like a space simulator. Centrifugal force or something?

Super Happy Fun! 200 entries!

My real entry

I made sailor collars and armbands for the Azumanga Daioh costumes last night. My first pattern design worked straight off, so it was very easy, if time consuming. They look very professional but I think that's mostly the stark contrast between the white and the navy.

Giffy likes my daddy cat. This makes me happy.

Iona is deleting a bunch of photos off my blog for space saving and I can't be bothered to change the entries yet. This means there may be some broken links when she does it, and I can't fix 'em over the weekend because of being in Auckland. So, bear with me. Costume photos can be found over at cosplaylab random pictures of me are gone for good. I think it's better this way, actually. I did feel a bit funny about having photos of me up, not that funny obviously, since I kept on putting them up but a bit funny all the same.

I am excited about going on the plane tonight, sad about leaving Lee in Wellington. I am looking forward to shopping tomorrow in Queen St, how I love to shop. Auckland is nice. I hope it's warm up there so I don't get too cold in my costume. Ooooooh I just remembered about the chocolate boutique! Yay!

No blogging on the weekend. in Auckland.

Jennigans awake

Morning with mist on the helicopter/ dreamed of don't know what. creme egg yesterday was heaven work hard fast no break. sewing to Michael Moore and Crackers the chicken why is Sailor moon on cd? dust on the desk where the monitor wasn't long lost remote. dry fibre in the form of bix taste good. rear view mirror won't stay where you want it no way to see what's behind when you marshmallow.

Pound the keys of white chocolate on a birthday cake piano; lino floor on the morning sunlight with a baby crawling over a big smile/ people like this kind of thing precious tupperware is all consuming, how long til there's tupper-wear?

mess in the lounge from sewing games dvds stuff too hard to tidy at the end of the time Krusty lies on the coffee table, noone else is up yet. Last night voices echoed through the place and laughter and whining and judgement.

My pinching neck pain

The reason I have pinching neck pain is that I freaked out this morning. I went to the car and the car was parked in. No room to reverse, a bit of room at the front and on a hill. Naturally.

I forgot how to hill start..which order to do things in, and I couldn't for the life of me get the car out of there. I tried to call Lee but had no money on my phone, so I had to go back to the apartment and then call him and wait for him to come back from work and get me out. I really hate being parked in, and I totally freaked when I couldn't do it myself. So now I have this mantra running through my head: Clutch in, handbrake on, accelerate, let clutch out slowly then release handbrake, car goes. The order is all. Clutch, accelerator handbrake....

My body is punishing me for freaking out with aches where I shouldn't have them. neck, shoulders, legs.

On the bright side I made a "daddy" freaky cat thing from Azumanga Daioh last night. It's cute as! Looking forward to seeing what Giffy's made us later today.

Still have to pack. I don't need very much for two nights, so it won't take me very long. Pjs, undies, tshirts, pants, warm outer layers, toothbrush, hairbrush and my handbag. Camera. Book. Fight club is very good. A bit gross, but good.

Also, once I got started I drove fine, and I got home last night without stalling. I'm still good!

My sinus pressure

Oh, that's weird. I was totally going to blog about something deep and meaningful and now it's disappeared.

Well, you'll just have to settle for shallow and trite instead: I drove the manual car to work today and didn't stall it *at all*. I rock. I rock so hard the big monkies are embarrassed at their own lack of rocking.

heh.

In other news Seraph's Nobilis game last night was much less traumatic and I enjoyed it a lot. I am putting off letting my character find out she is the power of Loss. I think I am justified in this. Also I had a lot of fun playing a fourteen year old.

Yesterday was mega busy at work. The day after Easter is always the busiest day of the year. So many people returning books and taking out more. It was very hectic. I am very tired, but today seems less busy so that's something.

I am reading Fight Club. It is good.

Cause I like pizza so much

Heh. I'm cheese. Look Zephfi! I'm cheese!

What cheese are you?

Easter

I saw Scooby Doo 2 and it was pretty good really. I mean, it wasn't the best movie ever, but it definitely did what you'd expect it to do and that was good.
I enjoyed it quite a lot and laughed at the jokes and I actually found the 5000 volt ghost kind of scary. It was pretty powerful and it had a very scary voice, all high and whiny. Reminded me of Free Magic creatures from Garth Nix's Sabriel series.

I also got cuddles from babies this weekend which was rather lovely. I hadn't seen my wee niece for a while, so it was good to catch up with her and see how big she's gotten. Lee and I gave my Dad a Settlers of Catan travel set for his birthday, which is so kawaii. The cards are all teeny. Me and my sister spent a bit of time cooing over it when he took it out.

Saw a bunch of my friends which is always nice. Watched some DVDs and had dinner at Sass's house. Thanks Sass! It was all kind of dinner party-esque. I'd say refined, but we weren't acting that refined so it would be a mis-adjective.

I haven't had sleeping pills since Friday night and I'm doing fine! Yay me!

I have been driving our "new" manual all weekend too, trying to get used to it. I am nearly used to it. I am now stalling it only as much as Lee does, and I'm recovering very fast. This manual car is a hand-me-down from Lee's folks, which is very nice for us, since it's quite a lot nicer than my old tatty automatic. I was just a little scared to drive it because it'd been over a year since Svend tutored me in manual driving in the big van.

I'm doing OK though, and was fully geared up to drive it to work, but it needs something to do with the cam-belt fixed up today so I'll be taking the little car instead.

Nakedness smoothie

I think you have to start with naked type fruit. I choose:

Banana, cause once you've stripped it of it's think outer skin it's very sweet and vulnerable (thanks for the word Phreq.)

Mango and Peach, because they have such a voluptous smell, and usually a taste to match.

Berries. This varies according to taste. I like raspberries, but blueberries give the smoothie a gorgous purple colour.

mix it up in the blender with some ice and fruit juice (apricot nectar gives it a nice twist.) then you add a bit of sorbet or kapiti gormet ice cream. Pina Colada is very nice as it adds coconut to the flavour.

That is a good smoothie. I'm sure it'd taste good naked too.

No Dr Phil today OR Monday. Curse you Easter!

I can't stay mad at you, Easter. I get to stay home from work and I'm given chocolate. It's a fantastic holiday.

Misheard

Here's something I collect: Misheard song lyrics.

Obligatory link to Kiss this guy, which is a whole website of it. Some of them are better than others, I mean...who cares if you mishear a lyric by They Might Be Giants? Their songs are random anyway...although "I don't want the world I just want to wear hats" is pretty funny. (Meant to be "I don't want the world, I just want your half'.)

I also found this one which is good: Beatle's Across the Universe Jai Guru Deva = John grew a Kmart. Heh heh

Anyhoo, here are some ones from people I actally know! Names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Tori lyric: Past the Mission
Belchy heard: Pass the Gibbon

Aaron Neville Lyric: Betcha By Golly wow
Melchy heard: Petrified tell me why

Powerpuff girls theme lyric: Blossom, and she's the toughest fighter!
Squelchy heard: Blossom, and she's a topless dancer!

Radiohead lyric: Siiiiiiiii-lllllllleeeeenccccce
Felchy heard: Saaaaaaaaaa-lllllllaaaaaaaad!

Girl from Ipanema lyric: Tall and thin and young and lovely
Zelchy heard: Tall and thin and yellow and lovely

....Now I can't remember any more. Those are my best ones anyway.

Donations of misheard song lyrics appreciated.

I've got a head full of drought

I'm reading I capture the castle which is perfectly lovely. I sae the movie in the film festival last year and it was perfectly lovely too. The movie is very faithful to the book so far. I am about halfway through it.

It's the fictional diary of Cassandra who lives in forties England in a crumbling old castle in the country. Her Father wrote a best selling novel about 15 years ago, and they have no money. Then two elligable Americans move in nearby and her whole family tries to get her older sister Rose married off to one of them. Of course it's not as easy as all that...

I am bringing a Stevie Nicks cd home as I think maybe I'll like her. Not sure what I'm basing that on, maybe because she has lovely hair like Tori? Actually the whole cd cover is Tori-esque. That'll be it.

Supposed to be making a costume for Auckland Armageddon and have done nothing. I have a week and two days...Hmm. Not sure if it'll actually happen at this point. I'd really like to dress as Retro Girl to meet Brian Michael Bendis but it being Easter weekend, I'm not sure if I can get into any fabric shops. I have family stuff going on Saturday. *Big sigh*.

Fabric donations welcome from anyone who is interested in seeing more costume pics on this blog. Hee hee.

Chocolate is also welcome.

mintie wrapper

Watched Kai Doh Maru last night which is a supremely beautiful anime set in ancient Japan and rendered like a wood cut or something. Gorgeous anyway. Like many Japanese movies it was a bit light on the exposition and Lee found it boring. It did move very slowly too, so I didn't love it. It was lovely to look at though.

Also watched Phone Booth again, which can't have been a good match, but I enjoyed it just as much the second time. Very well paced and well written.

Yesterday was another busy day at work, today is likely to be the same except I have the luxury of going to a meeting/training session in town this morning. It's is too cold and rainy. I don't want to leave the house. Return of the horrid Southerly.

Fruits Basket quiz

I am crazy psycho cutesy bunny guy.

Which Fruits Basket character are you?

Heh. I just did another one and it said I was Momiji too...I guess I have a similar outlook (and penchant for girl's clothes...) but I just don't have the dark past thing going on.

Genki

Today I am happy and cheerful. I am not completely healthy, but I am much more than I was last Monday. Awesome.

It is a gorgeously sunny and warm day and last night I watched the second half of Fruits Basket which is just the most heartwarming, sweet, cute and happy anime ever. I adore it, I want to own my own copies of the DVDs and watch them again and again and again....

My favourite boy was Kyo in the end. Kyo is possessed by the cat spirit, so he's a kitty cat if a girl hugs him. Because he's a cat everyone intrinsically likes him, but he doesn't really like people crowding him. He's a solitary kind of cat.
He reacts with anger a lot of the time but only because he's afraid of people getting too close to him and also he's not great at expressing any other emotion.

He's also gorgeous and kind hearted. *Aaaaaahhhhh bishonen.*

I like Yuki the rat guy too, but he had a less inpressive character arc, and he didn't change so much. Also he had a slightly less awful backstory so I didn't feel quite as sorry for him.

Go and watch Fruits Basket. It will make you happy!

Cosplaylab is back up finally, and I have already looked at the Fruits Basket costumes there. I am sad that most of the people who have made Kyo outfits are girls. *sigh*. Where are the real life cute guys dressing as imaginary cute guys? Where?!

ahem.

Sunny day = deliriously happy. End of story.

Pills again

I lost the gamble. I was sick of the bitter taste in my houth all day (that's a literal bitter taste, not the figurative one) and I weas sufficiently sleepy last night and I did NOT take a sleeping pill. I woke up at least three times. Suck. At least one time was to get away from a bad dream that I can only half remember now, so that time was Ok but the rest is not. I am now not very sure of what to do tonight. Maybe half a pill.

Yesterday I bought the Cutest Top Ever(tm). It is a white polar fleece hoodie. On the hood are two round ears. The sleeves have attatched fleece mittens with paw pads sewn on. It is adorable! I may post a pic of me wearing it...but not right now.

I get to see the rest of Fruits Basket this afternoon with Giffy! Yay!

I see

the way you could learn to depend on sleeping pills. My all-encompassing experience of four nights has given me incredible insight into sleeping pill using.

Here's the thing: if you take the pill, you'll get a good night's sleep. If you don't take the pill you *might* get a good sleep and you might not. Why gamble with the possibility of waking up if you don't have to?

My legs hurt.

I did storytime and it was good.

Yesterday I went back to work after two days off and I had to do five different things because no-one else was trained enough.
So: weekly banking- done
monthly stats - done
registration forms for March checked and alpheabetized and sent to the correct person - done
Book club - done (I don't normally do this, but the person who does was away sick. Hah!).
Class visit - done.

So much for a gentle return to work, I was busy all day and no time for anything much except lunchtime. I stayed home in the evening to compensate my body for the rushing.

Today at work is gentle, so that's all good.

This I swear you're the fiercest calm I've been in.

Offense

I am quite used to being offended by things that don't seem to bother the majority of my friends. Take the speights ads for example. I think they're sexist and awful but all these people say 'but they're funny!' That is not an excuse and it is not OK.

I've been ranting about tv ads a lot lately so I'll move to a different example type. Big dumb Hollywood Blockbusters. I used to love 'em. Now they offend me with their poorly drawn characters, storyline that exisits only to provide more explosions and token women who are just there to flash breasts/legs/give men sexual pleasure.

Then you get something like that blasted milkshake song that everyone I talk to agrees is just pplain wrong, and yet it gets a lot of publicity, played on Top of the Pops and probably made it to number one in the UK and possibly in NZ. I don't really now since it's been years since I watched a charts show.

Men whistling at me in the street, or calling out. That's awful too. I do not exist to provide all men with something nice to look at. I do not enjoy being told if I have by some total stranger. I don't think I've ever been whistled at by a woman so that's not an issue for me.

Moan moan moan.